Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom. Last resort
The only choice that remains after all others have been tried
The words behind the idiom. A resort here is a course of action one turns to. The last resort is therefore the course left when every other has already been attempted without success.
Example: ‘Surgery was used only as a last resort’ — that is, after other treatments had been tried.
So the meaning is ‘The only choice that remains after all others have been tried’.
Why the others fail — the third is the one to watch:
‘The only choice that also fails after all others have been tried’ — wrongly builds failure into the definition. A last resort may very well succeed; the idiom says nothing whatever about its outcome, only about its position in the sequence.
‘Few choices that differ from other choices’ — speaks of several options and of difference, whereas the idiom names a single final option.
‘The only choice that looks easy than other available choices’ — introduces ease, which is no part of the meaning, and is itself ungrammatical (easier than).
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